until then, the american gov't is going to do everything in its power to force us to use the american models like they're doing with electric vehicles and other green tech rn.

He's also done wayy more than his predecessors to increase the cost of fossil fuels

Local boomer politician has no idea how technology or the internet works, spouts nonsense.

Different chips can be used for training but as I said it's driver hell and much easier to just use Nvidia. As time goes on different vendors are catching up to Nvidia but I still think they're having a hard time with it. Chinese companies aren't still buying Nvidia because they love paying ludicrous rates for a tiny bit of extra VRAM on a GPU chip that's basically the same as the gaming one.

I feel like you definitely can get away with as much as even 5, but if you actually look at the CLI, it will tell you how many draft tokens actually got accepted. In some situations like writing simple text, over 90% of my two draft tokens get accepted so setting it to five would have made it faster. However if you run a task which requires heavy reasoning, even two draft tokens start approaching close to only 60%. Considering Qwen3.8-27B overthinks more than an anxious teenage girl, you should generally with two. If you take my example with the quant dropped to UD-Q5_K_XL with 262K tokens and reasoning low for a task that isn't actually complex, just long, then go right ahead and let it run with 5.